Table 2 Sociodemographic characteristic and oral health literacy estimates of the 282 study participants

Entire sample

282

100

11.5 (4.0)

Sex

0.8

 female

251

89

11.4 (4.0)

 male

31

11

11.6 (4.0)

Education (categorical)

< 0.0005

 high school or less

51

18

8.6 (4.0)

 technical college

94

33

11.2 (3.7)

 university

81

29

12.5 (3.7)

 graduate

56

20

13.0 (3.8)

 years (mean, SD)

15

2.8

Age (years; quartiles)

0.5

 Q1 range: 23.5, 35.7

33

2.8

11.0 (3.7)

 Q2 range: 35.7, 38.7

37

0.8

11.3 (3.8)

 Q3 range: 38.8, 43.1

41

1.3

11.6 (4.0)

 Q4 range: 43.2, 69.8

48

6.5

11.9 (4.4)

 years (mean, SD)

39

6.9

Marital

0.2

 single

18

6

11.6 (3.9)

 married

246

87

11.3 (4.0)

 divorced, separated, widowed

18

6

13.2 (3.6)

Number of children

0.6

 0

19

7

12.2 (4.0)

 1

79

28

11.5 (3.3)

 2

154

55

11.5 (4.1)

 3 or more

30

11

10.7 (4.6)

Foreign-born

0.8

 no

271

96

11.4 (4.0)

 yes

11

4

11.8 (3.7)

Primary language

0.9

 Greek

279

99

11.5 (4.0)

 other

3

1

11.7 (5.5)